Irish Examiner view: Not enough female leaders in Europe

Angela Merkel is departing, and Sweden's first female prime minister resigned after less than 12 hours

Magdalena Andersson of Sweden's Social Democratic Party resigned after less than 12 hours in the top job after her budget was rejected and the Green Party left her coalition. Picture: Fredrik Persson/TT News Agency via AP

It was the late British prime minister Harold Wilson who declared that “a week is a long time in politics”. 

If he were around now, he might consider reducing that to half a day, in light of the fact that Sweden's first female prime minister resigned after less than 12 hours in the top job after her budget was rejected and the Green Party left her coalition, plunging the country into political uncertainty.